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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received under the 2025 open call for farmer safety, health and wellbeing projects, which closed on 19 May 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeline for the assessment and announcement of successful projects under the farmer safety, health and wellbeing this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28544/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the types of projects submitted and indicate whether any are based in the Longford-Westmeath region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28545/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: The witnesses are all very welcome. I think of the words "Groundhog Day". We are back here again after a couple of years. I was a member of the previous committee, along with Deputy Malcolm Byrne. Mr. Bakhurst has just made a comment about this never happening again. We were told a number of years ago that this would not happen again. It took a news agency and a letter of correspondence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Yes, if Mr. Bakhurst will just let me finish for a second. Mr. Bakhurst made the comment that the audit and risk committee was aware of the write-down. A number of committee members who are in this room at present were at those previous meetings. We saw that RTÉ asked for significant funding from the Government to bail it out. It requested significant moneys yet no one in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: There are staff members present here today who were in senior roles in RTÉ during that time, such as the acting DG - the previous DG is not here - and the head of HR. Did they know about this while they were attending meetings of this committee and speaking to Members of the Oireachtas who asked questions of them? Two staff members are present. I will ask Mr. Lynch and Ms Cusack...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Was Ms Cusack aware of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: As head of HR, and bearing in mind that this was a system that was related to HR, Ms Cusack was not aware that this had happened. Who put together the tender for this IT system? Was it put together properly? Was the right ask put out there when it was being tendered for? Was Ms Cusack involved in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Ms Cusack was aware of the tender being put together. Was the correct tender put out? Did it have the right specification for the job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: It was the right specification for the job. Was the right supplier picked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Was it properly project managed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I am sorry to interrupt, but I am caught for time. RTÉ got it wrong. People are responsible. The specification was not done properly, the right supplier was not picked and it was not project managed. That is why there is a deficit of €3.7 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Sorry, but I am just asking Ms Cusack specifically about this. The reality is that all three of these things were gotten wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Has the Secretary General, as a departmental official, confidence in the governance and procedures in place at RTÉ, based on the fact that not one of the senior management team was aware of something that cost the taxpayer €3.7 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Is Mr. Ó Coigligh happy with the governance procedures now, based on the fact-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: On that, the DG mentioned the two previous CFOs and the fact they are not here. I will ask Ms Cusack, as head of HR, who project managed the project? Should there have been a reporting procedure back to her, as this was a HR project, to let her know the difficulties and the cost associated with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Ms Cusack would have been made aware that there were problems in it. There would have been an assumption that there were financial issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Is RTÉ expecting a legal action from Ryan Tubridy based on him seeking information? If so, does RTÉ have the funds in place to fight any action or any potential pay out? Regarding the new strategy, how much consultation is there and is there continuous consultation with, for example, staff on the implementation of that strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I wish to advise members of the constitutional requirements that members must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex to participate in our public meeting. Today's engagement is with the Central Bank of Ireland and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI. I thank the witnesses for coming here today. Last week, the committee considered some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I now invite Dr. O'Toole to make his opening statement.